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Photograph from the Derbyshire Times

Jepson, James, Lance Corporal, 27047, 1st Battalion, King’s Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)Disembarked for service 18th September 1915Formerly Private, 16451, 6th Battalion, Lincolnshire RegimentBorn Whittington Moor, DerbyshireEnlisted ChesterfieldKilled in action 12th October 1917, aged 21Son of Mr and Mrs M Jepson; husband of Elizabeth Hague (formerly Jepson), of 39 Sanforth Street, Newbold Moor, ChesterfieldCommemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium, Panel 18 to 19
1911 Census
A colliery labourer below ground
Son of Martin, a coal miner hewer, and Emma Jepson, of 20, Foundry Street, Whittington Moor, Chesterfield, Derbyshire

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Fragment of Pearson’s Pottery Rum Jar Found on the Somme Battlefields Near Montauban, France


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The Tyne Cot Memorial


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